“Whoever controls the volume of money, in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” - PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD

“While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.” - HORACE GREELEY

“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest....But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution, pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.” - THOMAS A. EDISON

“A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world--no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” (Just before he died, Wilson is reported to have stated to friends that he had been “deceived” and that “I have betrayed my Country.” He referred to the Federal Reserve Act passed during his Presidency.) - PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.” - SIR JOSIAH STAMP (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain)

“The modern Banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and unmint the modern ledger-entry currency.” - MAJOR L.L.B. ANGAS

“Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.” - RALPH M. HAWTREY (Former Secretary of the British Treasury)

“This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.” - ROBERT H. HEMPHILL (Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Ga.)

“The Federal Reserve (Banks) are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the International Bankers.” - CONGRESSMAN LOUIS T. McFADDEN:

- JOHN C. CALHOUN (Speech in the Senate, May 28, 1836)

“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave.” - LYOF N. TOLSTOY (in What Shall We Do?, 1891)

“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” - THOMAS JEFFERSON (Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1779)

“The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.” - WILLIAM COBBETT (in Advice to Young Men, I, 1829)

“Money lays waste cities; it sets men to roaming from home; it seduces and corrupts honest men and turns virtue to baseness; it teaches villainy and impiety.” - SOPHOCLES (Antigone. c. 450 B.C.)